KALAIVANAN VELU
Technical Consultant Storage, Backup and VMWARE Solutions Specialist
Chennai
Summary
A Storage professional Consultant with Overall 16 years of IT experience in Implementation, Administration, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting of Large-scale multi-peta byte SAN/NAS/Virtualization environment which consists of EMC PMAX-2000/8000, VMAX3, Unity650F/450F ,VNX, VPLEX, XtremIO (XIO), EMC Isilon/Power Scale, EMC Recover Point, NDM Migrations/ SRDF, NetApp NAS storage systems, Hitachi VSP -G Series, HPE 3PAR/Primera, ,SAN switches Brocade Cisco MDS Devices, Hyper Converged Infrastructure VxRAIL and DR Recovery Management.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
23
23
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Advisor - IT Operation Emerging Practice Team
DXC Technologies
Chennai
1 2014 - Current
- Comprehensive understanding and managing of Storage environment, accurate fault detection and maintenance of storage products, adherent to all Professional responsibilities & Ethics.
- Experienced in Implementation, Administration, Maintenance, and troubleshooting of Dell/EMC PowerMax, VMAX-3, Unity, XtremIO, VNX, Hitachi, Netapp, HPR 3PAR, Primera and Disaster recovery solutions such as, RecoverPoint SRDF and NDM migrations.
- Experienced with NetApp Cluster storage platform administration.
- Expertise on Hyper Converged Infrastructure like VxRAIL and VBLOCK.
- Hands-on experience FC Networking/SAN with Brocade and Cisco Fiber Channel switching technologies.
- Experience in installing, configuring, and migrating brocade switches for initial implementation and SAN refresh.
- Administration of CISCO and Brocade Fiber channel switches by creating zones and fabric configurations using putty and CISCO Fabric connect device manager.
- Expertise in Implemented data migrations using an Array-based solution Open Replication migration and SRDF and NDM Migrations.
- Experienced in IT frameworks ITIL, including key processes like knowledge, incident, change, service request, and major-incident management.
- Experienced with Life cycle management activities like Code upgrades, patch install, compliance validations.
Experienced in creating operational guides and associated documentation plus detailed runbooks for migration procedures. - Experienced in managing Incident/Change/Problem management in a mission-critical BSFI environments.
- Having Knowledge/experience with VMware replication technologies like SRM.
- Having knowledge in a distributed, cloud-based environment using Azure/AWS.
- Having Knowledge and/or experience with Automation of storage maintenance activities by using tools ansible, PowerShell.
- Gathered and analyzed customer feedback to inform product and service improvements.
Senior Engineer – Storage and Backup Management
Wipro Infotech
Chennai
08.2013 - 12.2013
- Worked on Knowledge Transition with MTN IS Team.
- Preparing KAP Documents for MTN Storage Team
- Once KAP gets Completed, I will provide KT to Support team
- Its Short Term Work Permit. VISA expired on DEC 23th 2013
- Getting KAP Information on EMC VMAX, VNX, Hitachi USP – V, VSP, Netapp FAS Series and VBLOCK CX 700 Series.
- Working on SAN Switches – Brocade DCX – 8510-8, 48K.
Senior Engineer – Storage and Backup Management
Wipro Infotech
Lagos
06.2013 - 08.2013
- Working as SAN SPECIALIST for GCC.
- Successfully completed DATA Centre migration project
- Supporting the production SAN storage environment managing ~1PB of storage Capacity.
- Zoning configuration & updating on fabric of switches using Brocade\Cisco Command line,
- Planning for addition Servers and Design Solution and Educating Local IT on Physical Connections.
- Managing all Sev2, Sev3 and Sev4 cases.
- Managing and Supporting the San IT Infrastructure using the FC connectivity via Brocade and CISCO Switches – All types of switches from 48K, 5300, 5100,. Fabric Manager Support., Troubleshooting zoning issues, troubleshooting connectivity issues.
- Managing different Storage Vendor products from EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, VBLOCK, Netapp, Hitachi – AMS2500, HP EVA, MSA Arrays
Senior Executive – Storage and Backup Management
Maersk Global Service Centre
Chennai
01.2010 - 06.2011
- Designing and deploying backup services according to client's requirement.
- Successfully handled more than 20 IT projects related to backup Infrastructure services.
- Completed 3 Disaster Recovery Activities in compliance with Business Continuity Plan.
- Maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting the backup issues.
- Troubleshooting the library hardware.
- o Strong Knowledge on Media Management, CDR Concepts, Deduplications, Software Compression and CommNet.
- Conducting and coordinating the DR tests.
- Expert knowledge on EVA(Enterprise Virtual array) dealing from basic function such as initializing EVA to presentation of LUNS to hosts of different operating System flavors.
- Installing and Configuring HBA cards.
- Supporting installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of SAN devices.
- Supporting Global customers for EVA installation, troubleshooting etc.
- Responsible for supporting Global customers for SAN switch installation, troubleshooting, zoning, etc.
Senior System Administrator
TNQ Books And Journals
Chennai
01.2007 - 01.2010
- Responsible for the installation of EVA 4400, 4100, 6100, 8100 etc.
- Installation and configuration of Hitachi SAN storage – AMS 200 product
- Prior to installation of EVA site survey is conducted ensuring proper power requirement & sharing some pre-requisites with the customer.
- Responsible for the installation of Blade server BL 460c, BL 680c, BL 860c & DL 380 G5, DL 320s server .
- Ensuring proper decisions on difficult hardware installations and maintenance.
- Configured Active Passive Cluster Nodes in Windows Clusters.
- Backup Management – Symantec Backup Exec 12.5
- Upgrading the Backup tool from Lower to Update Version.
- Taking Regular ERD.
- Creating a CIFS (Windows), Mac share or NFS (Unix) share on NAS appliance
- Installation, configuration, maintaining virtual server environment, creating and deleting virtual servers and Backup scheduling using VCB
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
SathyaBama Institute of Science And Technology
Chennai 01.2004 - 03.2024
Bachelor of Science -
S.R.M Arts And Science College
Chennai 04.2001 - 03.2004
Skills
Storage - DELL EMC, Netapp,HP
Backup - Commvault
VMWARE - VxRAIL & VBLOCK
Disater Recovery Management - DR
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Mr. M.V.Velu
- Date of Birth: 05-03-1983
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Certifications
- EMEA- Commvault System Administration
- Azure Certified Engineer
- VCE – VBLOCK Storage and Configuration Management
- SuniTech certified Windows Server 2003 and Linux Administration
- CCNA
- Diploma in Hardware and Networking
Timeline
Senior Engineer – Storage and Backup Management
Wipro Infotech
08.2013 - 12.2013
Senior Engineer – Storage and Backup Management
Wipro Infotech
06.2013 - 08.2013
Senior Executive – Storage and Backup Management
Maersk Global Service Centre
01.2010 - 06.2011
Senior System Administrator
TNQ Books And Journals
01.2007 - 01.2010
Master of Science - Information Technology
SathyaBama Institute of Science And Technology
01.2004 - 03.2024
Bachelor of Science -
S.R.M Arts And Science College
04.2001 - 03.2004
Advisor - IT Operation Emerging Practice Team
DXC Technologies
1 2014 - Current
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